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- Apes (collectively Hominoidea /hɒmɪˈnɔɪdi.ə/) are a superfamily of Old World simians native to sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia (though they were...
- constitute an incomplete paraphyletic grouping; alternatively, if apes (Hominoidea) are included, monkeys and simians are synonyms. In 1812, Étienne Geoffroy...
- catarrhines about 35–40 mya and have African origin, while the apes (Hominoidea) diverged from Old World monkeys (Cercopithecoidea) about 25 mya. The...
- classifications: A hominoid, sometimes called an ape, is a member of the superfamily Hominoidea: extant members are the gibbons (lesser apes, family Hylobatidae) and...
- Cercopithecidae (Old World monkeys in the stricter sense) and the superfamily Hominoidea (apes – including humans). The simians are sister group to the tarsiers...
- anthropoids, or Old World monkeys) consists of the Cercopithecoidea and apes (Hominoidea). In 1812, Geoffroy grouped those two groups together and established...
- placement in the ape superfamily Hominoidea is tentative; some scientists place Proconsulidae outside of Hominoidea in a separately superfamily Proconsuloidea...
- "non-hominin hominids"). This cladogram shows the clade of superfamily Hominoidea and its descendant clades, focused on the division of Hominini (omitting...
- Cercopithecoidea, containing the Old World monkeys of the family Cercopithecidae; Hominoidea, containing the great apes of the family Hominidae and the gibbons of...
- Hominoidea is a superfamily of primates. Members of this superfamily are called hominoids or apes, and include gorillas, chimpanzees, orangutans, gibbons...